Monday, September 15, is the Harvest Moon, said in Norse mythology to be the most powerful of the moons for a strong harvest and plenty. It is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.
All full moons rise around the time of sunset. However, the Harvest Moon and Hunter's Moon are special, because around the time of these full moons, the time difference between moonrise on successive evenings is shorter than usual. Thus there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise around the time following these full moons. In times past this feature was said to help farmers working to bring in their crops. They could continue being productive by moonlight even after the sun had set.
Often, the Harvest Moon seems to be bigger or brighter or more colorful than other moons. These effects have to do with the seasonal tilt of the earth. The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is an optical illusion, based on the fact that when the moon is low in the sky, you are looking at it through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead.
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The moon affect our life in so many ways.Affects plants ,animals and runs the oceans tides.Here is a great quote from the great thinker and mescal-taker/way before Thimoty Leary started his psyhodelic journeys/ -Aldous Huxley."Half of the human race lives in manifest obedience to the lunar rhythm; and there is evidence to show that the psychological and therefore the spiritual life, not only of women, but of men too, mysteriously ebbs and flows with the changes of the moon. There are unreasoned joys, inexplicable miseries, laughters and remorses without a cause. Their sudden and fantastic alternations constitute the ordinary weather of our minds. These moods, of which the more gravely numinous may be hypostasized as gods, the lighter, if we will, as hobgoblins and fairies, are the children of the blood and humours. But the blood and humours obey, among many other masters, the changing moon. Touching the soul directly through the eyes and, indirectly, along the dark channels of the blood, the moon is doubly a divinity."
* "Meditations of the Moon"
P.S I thought that this qoute will bridge your previous posting/saturday/ regarding A.Huxley and give him well deserved tribute.He was a visionary regarding how the society is manipulated and brainwashed from the ruling parties, which have their own agenda.
Thanks so much for that fascinating quote by Huxley regarding the moon. We can see the effects of what he's discussing right around us, but he carried his comment to a metaphysical level, where it is even more profound.
I've never heard of his "Meditations on the Moon" so now I want to chase it down. Thanks again, Ludmil, for adding your special dimension to this post and many others!
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